Tech News Recap | Dec. 3-7, 2012

Geek 5: All the News You Need to Know

This week saw some major milestones in the tech and design world, from a revealing interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook to the announcement of the highly anticipated Pantone Color of the Year. Catch up on that, a buzzed-about new Tumblr, and the rest of the news you need to know in Geek 5.

Have you seen Tumblr's newest blog sensation yet? The Hawkeye Initiative is based on an idea that replacing female characters with The Avengers' Hawkeye would help expose the sexualization of women in comics and graphic novels.

On Dec. 3, 1992, Matti Makkonen sent "Merry Christmas" from a computer to a cell phone for the first time ever. In honor of its big 2-0, we rounded up some of the silliest memes born from the now-ubiquitous SMS.

Gmail For iPhone

What’s Your Reaction?Share this reaction with your friends!000000

Gmail for iPhone and iPad finally got the attention it deserves. It looks like the native iOS app is quickly catching up to its once-superior Android counterpart. The reboot of Google's official email app is so good that it might just take the top spot for iOS mobile mail apps.